Editing Hobbits (section)

==Why Hobbits are Awesome==
Over the course of Tolkien's writings, all of the main Hobbit characters and several minor characters get their moments to shine, with several of these moments unfortunately never making it into the films.
* Bilbo's great-great-grand-uncle Bandobras "Bullroarer" Took, who was so big (4'6") he could ride a horse, lead the Hobbits of the Shire against an invasion of goblins from the Misty Mountains at the Battle of Greenfields. During the battle, he charged their lines and headed straight for their chieftain Golfimbul. When he finally reached Golfimbul, Bandobras [[Awesome|clubbed him in the face so hard the goblin's head came right off and was sent flying a hundred yards across the battlefield]] and rolled into a rabbit hole, shattering the goblin army's morale. Thus did Brandobas win the battle for the Shire and invent the game of Golf with one stroke.
* In <i>The Hobbit</i>, when his Dwarf companions got caught by the spiders of Mirkwood and hauled into the deepest, darkest part of the forest, Bilbo was the one who saved them from being eaten. He cut down so many spiders with his newly christened dagger, Sting, that they fled from him in sheer terror. To top it all off, while he was killing them he even began to sing a silly song about it which he composed on the spot and caused much [[rage]] in the spiders who heard him.
* When the Dwarves got caught ''again'', this time by the Elves of Mirkwood, Bilbo infiltrated their stronghold and remained hidden from the inhabitants - all of whom possess very keen senses and many of their number being warriors with centuries to millennia of experience navigating the treacherous forests of Mirkwood - for several weeks until he found a way for his companions to escape.
* Bilbo snuck into Smaug's lair ''twice'', fully aware that the dragon had destroyed two of the mightiest kingdoms in Middle-earth and their armies all in the space of a day, which was all but outright stated to be something Smaug did on a whim. The narration explicitly states that Bilbo overcoming his own fear was the hardest battle he ever fought, which became rather hilarious when he [[derp|made the mistake of taunting Smaug]] and nearly got immolated by the angry dragon's fire breath.
* At the beginning of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Bilbo willingly gave up the One Ring - an artifact just as seductive and dangerous as anything [[Chaos]] could make - after it had sixty years to sink its hooks into him. Later, when the good guys all met up in Rivendell and were deciding what to do with the ring, Bilbo volunteered to take it to Mount Doom despite being ''129 years old'' at the time and in absolutely no shape to make the journey, and it's heavily implied he did this because he knew what the ring would do to his nephew Frodo.
* The Nazgûl are capable of inducing the same kind of pants-wetting terror in people as the [[Night Lords]] do, but Hobbits apparently don't give a damn about that. One Hobbit named Farmer Maggot told the Witch-King's second in command to shove off when the wraith asked where the Baggins family lived, then threatened to unleash the hounds when it didn't take the hint.
* When the Ringwraiths entered the village of Bree and broke into his home, another Hobbit named Fatty Bolger alerted the Brandybuck clan to what was going on, whereupon they immediately sprung into action by sounding the alarm and getting ready to knock some heads, causing the Nazgûl to flee before they could locate Frodo.
* When he and his friends got caught by wights in the Barrow-Downs and dragged into their barrow, Frodo was too terrified to move even after one attacked him until he noticed it was going for his friends. He promptly grabbed the nearest barrow-blade and attacked the wight in a fury any D&D berserker would be proud of.
* After getting stabbed by the Witch-King's Morgul knife and dealing with the kind of excruciating pain that would have most of us nerds crying like babies, Frodo refused to leave for Rivendell on the fastest horse available until he was told that the Nazgûl would be chasing him and not his friends.
* Merry and Pippin made the Ents of Fangorn forest realize that they ''needed'' to join the fight against the shadow, which leads directly to the tree-folk marching into Isengard, ripping open its walls like they were made of wet cardboard and knocking Saruman out of the war.
* Samwise Gamgee proved he was awesomeness personified in Cirith Ungol. After entering the valley Frodo got caught and webbed up by Shelob, a gigantic demonic spider that no Orcish or Gondorian warrior had ever managed to seriously injure. Sam was so angered by this creature threatening his friend that he promptly grabbed Sting and attacked her, and the fight's narration told us that he caused her more agony than anything she had ever faced in her life until then. A group of Orcs who showed up after the fight ended were convinced there was a mighty Elven warrior on the loose because ''no one'' had ever injured Shelob that badly before.
** Believing Frodo was dead Sam took the One Ring and readied himself to go to Mount Doom by himself, and naturally, it tried setting its hooks in him as it had done to so many others before him. Everyone, including mighty wizards, Elf queens, and lords of Gondor had all been tempted by the ring and needed a great effort of will to refuse it; and in Boromir's case, failed to resist its siren song. This made it all the more awesome when it tried to corrupt Sam and found the simple Shire gardener was completely immune. Even when he put the damn thing on, the best it could come up with to tempt him was [[FAIL|an image of Mordor ''covered in flowers'']]! Which Sam immediately refused, not just because it was ridiculous, but because he genuinely didn’t want anything more than a plot of land he could work with his own two hands.
** Upon hearing the orcs say that Frodo wasn't dead, Sam followed them back to their fortress and slaughtered everything in his path like something out of [[Doom]], and by the time he's barely halfway through them the Orcs are convinced what they thought was an elven warrior is actually a mighty Elf ''Lord'' with a huge sword, a ginormous ax, and wielding magical fire. The crowner to all this is when, upon reuniting with Frodo, Sam did something that literally no one in the history of Middle-Earth had ever done before: ''give the One Ring to someone else without the slightest hesitation'' (''some'' hesitation in the PJ movies, but he still gives it back to Frodo in the end). [[Castellan Crowe]] would approve.
* During the battle of the Pelennor Fields Merry snuck up behind the Witch-King of Angmar - who is to Middle-Earth what [[Abaddon the Despoiler]] is to 40k with none of the memetic [[fail]] (or Vardek Crom in Fantasy for a somewhat more accurate comparison) - and shanked him in the leg with the sword he took from the Barrow-Downs, crippling the Nazgul and giving Eowyn the chance to kill it.
* At the Battle of the Black Gate, Pippin fought and killed an Olog-hai - a bigger, stronger, sturdier, more vicious, and more cunning breed of [[troll]] that doesn't turn to stone when exposed to sunlight - to save the life of a friend. This earned him the title of "Trollslayer". 
* On the slopes of Mount Doom Frodo had finally succumbed to the Ring's corruption and was struggling over it with Gollum when the "other world" that ringbearers saw when they put it on started leaking into the normal world, showing Sam a vision which heavily implied Frodo had enough power and strength of will inside himself to wield the power of a dark lord just like Sauron had instead of being reduced to a neurotic, twisted wretch like Gollum.
* The Scouring of the Shire, where Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin returned to find out that Saruman has been doing everything he can to ruin their home out of pure spite. They're not having any of it, completely disregard what any of the ex-wizard's bullyboys have to say because none of the four consider them a threat in the least, then rally the Hobbits of the Shire to drive him and his lackeys out with their tails between their legs. And by drive them out we mean "handfuls escaped, most turned into pincushions at the cost of a handful hobbits, rest captured" for the Ruffians, and Saruman got his throat slit by Grima who then got shot three times before Frodo could even open his mouth to ask for his surrender.

But paradoxically one of the biggest thing thing which most makes Hobbits Awesome is that by the old meaning of the word, they are not. Awesome means "to evoke Awe", something so impressive and imposing that you can't help but be overwhelmed by it in admiration, respect, fear or some combination there-of. What you'd experience in seeing a hero of legendary prowess, a victorious army on parade, a towering monumental building, an experiment which changes the way we see the world or a rock concert of tens of thousands absolutely pumped. This is not the impression you'd get if you saw a short hairy footed guy walking buy with a wheelbarrow full of potatoes smoking a pipe and giving you a friendly smile and nod as he goes by. 

Instead in a section of the world there lives a people. They lack the magic and the wisdom of the dawn of days that the Elves have, nor have they carved grand cities from mountains like the Dwarves, nor have they achieved anything like the Greatness of Numenor or Gondor. They have managed to meet their needs to their satisfaction in bucolic coziness and are comfortable, content and arguably complacent. They are not helpless, but beyond a few exceptions they are still very far removed from Greatness. Even so while they may not be mighty, fearsome, learned or imperious this humble people with their quaint ways still enrich the Song of Creation. One does not need to be Great to be worthwhile, living a good life with loved ones is more than enough.